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In the Wee Small Hours
(1954)
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Frank Sinatra
Expanding on the concept of Songs for Young Lovers!, In the Wee Small Hours was a collection of ballads arranged by Nelson Riddle. The first 12" album recorded by Sinatra, Wee Small Hours was more focused and concentrated than his two earlier concept records. It's a blue, melancholy album, built around a spare rhythm section featuring a rhythm ...
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Round Midnight with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra
(1986)
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Linda Ronstadt w/ Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra
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Lush Life
(1984)
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Linda Ronstadt
What's New illustrated that Linda Ronstadt was no longer interested in contemporary pop, and since it was a surprise success, there was no reason not to repeat the formula on Lush Life. Working again with Nelson Riddle, Ronstadt runs through several pop standards -- "When I Fall in Love," "Sophisticated Lady," "Falling in Love Again," "It Never ...
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Live and Swingin': The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection [CD & DVD]
(2003)
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The Rat Pack
As a double-dose audiovisual document of the Rat Pack, this two-disc package -- one a CD, one a DVD -- more than lives up to its title. Disc one is an audio-only CD culled from performances given by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962, over half of which is previously ...
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How Long Has This Been Going On?
(1978)
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Sarah Vaughan
This CD reissue features the great Sarah Vaughan in a typically spontaneous Norman Granz Pablo production with pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louie Bellson. Sassy sounds wonderful stretching out on such songs as "Midnight Sun," "More Than You Know," "Teach Me Tonight," and "Body and Soul," among others. ...
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The Genius of Ray Charles
(1959)
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Ray Charles
Some players from Ray Charles' big band are joined by many ringers from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands for the first half of this program, featuring Charles belting out six songs arranged by Quincy Jones. "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Deed I Do" are highlights, and there are solos by tenorman David "Fathead" Newman, trumpeter Marcus ...
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My Romance
(1990)
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Carly Simon
On her second album of pop standards, Carly Simon was a little less interested in the lovelorn songs that had filled 1981's Torch, although she did soldier through "By Myself" and "When Your Lover Has Gone." For the most part, the theme was romantic, with classics like "My Funny Valentine" and "Bewitched" handled in Simon's sexy, plaintive style. ...
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The Rocketeer
(1991)
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James Horner
Before Titanic, James Horner was not above composing scores for cartoonish family films, and many of those that brought him on their production board owe him greatly. The Rocketeer directed by Joe Johnston (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, October Sky) entails the story of a young pilot during World War II who happens upon a rocket pack that ...
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Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics
(1943)
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Frank Sinatra
The beauty of any Frank Sinatra collection is that, depending upon how it is put together by the producers for whatever purpose they have in mind, each one allows the listener to focus on a different aspect of the singer's work and pick out new and varied details. On one level, this double-CD set is a good compromise for listeners who aren't ...
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Music for Loving
(1995)
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Ben Webster with Strings
Combining two string albums by Ben Webster and one from Ellington sideman Harry Carney, the two-disc Music With Feeling delivers over two hours' worth of incredible ballad interpretations. Webster, of course, made his name with many an after-hours gem, and he predictably shines here amidst the lush yet tasteful orchestral charts penned by Ralph ...
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Lonely Street
(1959)
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Andy Williams
A reissue of Williams' 1960 best-selling Cadence album with bonus tracks added from Andy Williams' Best and Two Times Winners. This is Williams making -- for him -- a very bluesy and jazzy album, full of melancholy and longing on tracks like "You Don't Know What Love Is," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "When Your Lover Has Gone," ...
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Tenor Madness
(1956)
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Sonny Rollins Quartet
At a time when he was a member of the legendary Clifford Brown/Max Roach sextet, Sonny Rollins was still the apple fallen not too far from the tree of Miles Davis. Tenor Madness was the recording that, once and for all, established Newk as one of the premier tenor saxophonists, an accolade that in retrospect, has continued through six full decades ...
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I Wish You Love
(1957)
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Keely Smith
Although known primarily as one-time partner and wife to Louis Prima (vocals), Keely Smith (vocals) also had a measurable amount of success on her own. I Wish You Love was not only the title of her debut long-player, it quickly became one of her signature pieces as well. By the end of the 1950s, the team of Prima and Smith were among the hottest ...
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Spotlight on Keely Smith (Great Ladies of Song)
(1994)
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Keely Smith
20 tracks from her late-'50s sessions with Nelson Riddle and Billy May, emphasizing familiar standards like "There Will Never Be Another You," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Fools Rush In," and "Stormy Weather." Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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Anthony Newley Collection
(2006)
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Anthony Newley
Spectrum Music, the European discount imprint of Universal Music, dips into the Decca Records catalog (and, for one track, Mercury Records') to assemble this double-disc compilation of the recordings of Anthony Newley between 1959 and 1964. (His later recordings for RCA Victor, MGM and other labels are not included.) Newley was already a film and ...
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I Remember Brother Ray
(2005)
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David "Fathead" Newman
If ever a musician had a pedigree for simultaneously lamenting and celebrating the late Ray Charles, David "Fathead" Newman does. Newman met Charles in 1952 and was a working member of his band from 1954-1964. This program of tunes so closely associated with Charles features the tenor saxophonist in the company of vibist Steve Nelson, John Hicks ...
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Ella and Oscar
(1974)
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Ella Fitzgerald with Oscar Peterson
For this Pablo set (reissued on CD), Ella Fitzgerald is heard on half of the program in duets with pianist Oscar Peterson and for the remainder in trios with Peterson and bassist Ray Brown. In general the performances are memorable (particularly "How Long Has This Been Going On," "More than You Know," "Midnight Sun" and "April in Paris") with the ...
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All That Jazz
(1989)
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Ella Fitzgerald
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The Romantic Moods of Jackie Gleason
(1996)
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Jackie Gleason
This is a fine compilation of Jackie Gleason's output for Columbia. Gleason's objective was to make "musical wallpaper" that should never be intrusive, but rather conducive. He was not musically literate, but never had a problem articulating what he wanted to hear from his orchestra. The music here is quiet, melancholy, and often somber, played at ...
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Baker's Holiday [Hybrid]
(2004)
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Chet Baker
Baker's Holiday finds Chet Baker effectively paying tribute to Billie Holiday with mellow trumpet solos and occasional vocals. Baker is backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm section that includes pianist Hank Jones; Jimmy Mundy contributed the colorful arrangements. His performance of ten songs associated with Lady Day (most of ...
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Music for Lovers Only/Music to Make You Misty
(1999)
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Jackie Gleason
A repackaging of Jackie Gleason's two most popular albums, Collectors Choice Music's Music for Lovers Only/Music to Make You Misty is an instrumental easy listening CD with a unabashed romantic mood. 1953's Music for Lovers Only was Gleason's most popular and sold over 500,000 copies. The disc includes instrumental versions of "My Funny Valentine, ...
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Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
(1959)
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Ben Webster With Oscar Peterson
Another fine Webster release on Verve that sees the tenor great once again backed by the deluxe Oscar Peterson Trio. In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson is joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen -- use this 1959 date to conduct a clinic in ballad ...
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The Complete Prestige Recordings
(1949)
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Sonny Rollins
This seven-CD box set lives up to its title, reissuing in chronological order all of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' recordings for Prestige. Dating mostly from 1951-1956, these valuable performances find Rollins developing from a promising player to a potential giant; many of his best recordings would take place a year or two after this program ...
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The Billy May Sessions
(1951)
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Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole recorded with arranger/bandleader Billy May on several occasions and all of their collaborations are on this excellent double-CD The Billy May Sessions. Dating from 1951, 1953, 1954, 1957 and 1961, some of the more memorable numbers include "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," "Angel Eyes," "Papa Loves Mambo," "Send for Me," "Who's Sorry Now ...
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Mood Music/Dream Time Music
(2000)
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Paul Weston
In 2000, Collectables released easy listener Paul Weston's Mood Music/Dream Time Music, which reissued the two complete albums on one compact disc. A soothing, intimate collection perfect for reminiscing or relaxation that is chock-full of standards guaranteed to emote old memories or serve as a catalyst to make new ones. Rob Theakston, All ...
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